Borda, Siro (1761-1824)

Ristretto di Materia Medica desunto dalle Lezioni del celebre Professore Siro Borda. Notes of a course of lectures, written by several hands. Produced in Pavia.

early 19th century

1 volume 1 l. + 549 pp. + 3 bl. ll. + 23 ll. last bl. 4to. 22 x 161/2 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1930.

Siro Borda was a follower of Rasori's theories of stimulus and contrastimulus, but he abandoned them towards the end of his life, and ordered that all his MSS. should be destroyed after his death.

The National Library of Medicine at Bethesda, Md. contains two MSS. of these lectures, one of which is dated 1810.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).